The Niger State Ministry of Mineral Resources, in collaboration with the Niger State Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the ...

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The 33 miners were miraculously rescues after surviving nearly two months underground. “This is not a lawsuit against the government,” Mario Sepúlveda, one of the rescued miners, told La ...

Meanwhile, the 33 miners remain trapped (or dead?) underground near Copiapo in northern Chile since last Thursday. The rescue efforts are thus far unsuccessful and no communication has been made ...

Rescue workers practice a dry run with one of the capsules that will be used to rescue the trapped miners. As rescue workers prepare to release the 33 miners who have been trapped for more than ...

Santiago, Chile (CNN)-- Two miners were killed and a third was injured in a dynamite explosion at a copper and gold mine in Chile's Atacama Desert, not far from another mine where 33 miners were ...